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Santa's Winter Garden at World Financial Center
November 17, 2009
Winter Season

Santa's Winter Garden at World Financial Center
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, December 11, 12, & 13
Proceeds Benefit Project Sunshine
ETHEL/Annie-B Parson site-specific, widely acclaimed collaboration Wait for Green,
November 17, 2009
Winter Season

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Composing music based on choreographic forms?

Sure, If You're Post-classical String Quartet ETHEL Collaborating with
Annie-B Parson, Postmodern Choreographer for Site-Specific
Wait for Green

Acclaimed Arts>World Financial Center 2008 Commission Returns
Free in the World Financial Center Winter Garden
Friday, December 18, at 12:30pm & 7:00pm

100,000 Lights Flood Winter Garden For Festival Of Light And Sound
November 17, 2009
Winter Season

December 1 through December 28
A Lighting Ceremony with New York Theatre Ballet's The Nutcracker (12/01);
Beyond the Pale (12/14)
ETHEL & Annie-B Parson: Wait for Green (12/18)
&
Ase Dance Theatre Collective (12/28)
plus
Santa & Caroling
CANSTRUCTION©
November 12, 2009
Fall Season

17th Annual NYC Competition
60x60 Dance pairs 60 composers with 60 choreographers for an electrifying one-hour performance
October 23, 2009
Fall Season

arts>World Financial Center joins forces with the NY-based music consortium Vox Novus to present 60x60 Dance – a one-hour multimedia extravaganza featuring an exciting mix of contemporary dance and electronic music.

Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
October 1, 2009
Fall Season

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center's
Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition
Featuring Merce Cunningham's 1998 Hand-drawn Spaces
Free in the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery
Now through October 24
Manufacturers Show Their Metal at New York's Free Motor Show Event
September 9, 2009
Fall Season

Organisers of the 2009 New York Motorexpo have announced full details of this September’s World Financial Center event – which takes place from Sunday September 13 to Friday September 18 and is completely free for the public to attend.

The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, Rate of Change: Time and Space in Electronic Art
September 3, 2009
Fall Season

Rate of Change exhibits the wide range of electronic art and it’s transition from the 20th to the 21st century. It presents the works of eight artists working in immersive video and audio installation, audience and environmentally responsive sculpture and experimental narrative.

New York Electronic Art Festival Launches Month-Long Celebration of Cutting-Edge Electronic Art
August 31, 2009
Fall Season

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center announces the 2009 New York Electronic Art Festival, a month-long series of concerts, workshops, and exhibitions centered on the cutting-edge work being done at the intersection of art and technology.

Let's EAT! World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase
June 24, 2009
Summer Season

Brookfield Properties presents
EAT: WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER RESTAURANT SHOWCASE
Featuring World-Class Cuisine "Under Glass" for as Little as $1
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Thursday, July 9, 11:00am – 2:30pm

Also from River to River Festival and arts>World Financial Center:
LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII
Performs Free and Outdoors on the World Financial Center Plaza at 12:30pm

American Ballroom Theater Finals At River To River Festival
June 18, 2009
Summer Season

NYC Grade School Students Compete In
American Ballroom Theater Finals At River To River Festival

Caroline Kennedy to Cheer NYC Students
Competing in Finals of World Famous Ballroom Dance Program

The Big Draw
June 18, 2009
Summer Season

AS PART OF THE RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

Saturday, July 18, 2009
11:00 am – 4:00 pm

A fun, free, day-long drawing event for all ages at Three Lower Manhattan venues

Bang on a Can Marathon
May 31, 2009
Summer Season

BANG ON A CAN
MARATHON 2009
Opens the River to River Festival
Sunday, May 31, 2009
12 Hours: Noon – Midnight
World Financial Center Winter Garden
220 Vesey Street, NYC

Women's Project's Global Cooling: The Women Chill
May 7, 2009
Summer Season

arts>World Financial Center and
The River to River Festival Hit & Run Theater

present

Women's Project's Global Cooling: The Women Chill
six site-specific plays throughout World Financial Center
World Premieres by women
Nine free performances only June 3 thru 6

Building Paradise Performance
May 1, 2009
Spring Season

Visual Art Exhibition "BUILDING PARADISE" continues with
FREE PERFORMANCE
Thursday, May 14, at 7:30pm
"object lesson: house of song, walled garden, island in the sea"
By Liz Glynn and Mariechen Danz
Presented by arts>Brookfield Properties; Free at 7+FIG Art Space

Hector Del Curto and Eternal Tango Orchestra
April 23, 2009
Spring Season

World Financial Center goes Argentine Tango --
Argentinean Bandoneónist and Bandleader Héctor Del Curto Transforms the
World Financial Center Winter Garden into a Grand Ballroom of Tango
And Evening of Dancing to the Music of the Eternal Tango Orchestra
Free Dance Lessons Too! Thursday, May 21

River Grass Skirts
April 13, 2009
Spring Season

World Financial Center Grows Its Own --
Skirts, That Is
Site-specific Artist Michele Brody Constructs Five Grass-sprouting Skirts
Growing in World Financial Center Winter Garden April 13 thru May 9

Building Paradise
April 9, 2009
Spring Season

Road to Utopia Leads to 7 + FIG:

arts>Brookfield Properties presents BUILDING PARADISE
Photography, Video Projection, Multi-Media Installation, Drawing, Animation, Sculpture and Performance
6 Artists / 4 Teams
Free at 7+FIG Art Space, April 10–May 29

American Repertory Ballet
April 3, 2009
Spring Season

Dance works by Twyla Tharp, Graham Lustig and Kirk Peterson will be performed on the stage of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, when the American Repertory Ballet, Graham Lustig artistic director, performs a free dance concert Thursday, April 9, at 12:30pm.

EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase
March 26, 2009
Winter Season

The restaurants of the World Financial Center are celebrating their culinary specialties, testing new menu items and showcasing signature dishes at EAT: World Financial Center Restaurant Showcase.

Songs of Love & Despair: A Musical Tribute to Pablo Neruda
March 18, 2009
Spring Season

For National Poetry Month, arts>World Financial Center adds Music to Pablo Neruda:
Songs of Love & Despair: A Musical Tribute to Pablo Neruda
Featuring performances/readings by Clogs, Irene & Vojtech Havel, Colin Stetson, Pedro Soler with Beñat Achiary, Bob Holman, Laurie Anderson & Cecilia Vicuña. Wednesday, April 15, at 8pm.

Niall O'Leary Irish Dance Troupe
March 17, 2009
Winter Season

The hottest way, or at least the warmer way, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year is under the palm trees of the World Financial Center Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street, when Niall O'Leary Irish Dance Troupe brings Irish stepdance downtown on Tuesday, March 17, at 12:30pm for a free dance concert.

Linda Pollack's Habeas Lounge, A Public Art Project: Focus on the Economy
February 10, 2009
Winter Season

L.A.-based artist Linda Pollack is creating a modern day salon in a former flower shop on the concourse level of One New York Plaza, where New Yorkers, any New Yorkers, can gather for four hours every weekday to discuss the great economic issues of the day.

Love Under Glass: Baby Jane Dexter & Her Trio Celebrate an Early Valentine's Day
February 4, 2009
Winter Season

Love under glass is a many splendid thing. Even more so when it's the barrel-vaulted, glass-enclosed World Financial Center Winter Garden and the love is an early celebration of Valentine's Day with a cabaret concert by Baby Jane Dexter & Her Trio.

Lower Manhattan Gets Its Own Orchestra!
January 4, 2009
Winter Season

The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra debuts January 17 with a World Premiere of An Inaugural Fanfare by Gary S. Fagin featuring Elizabeth Pitcairn playing the Red Violin

Winter at the World Financial Center: All Free, All Fun, All Heated in the Winter Garden
January 1, 2009
Winter Season

The World Financial Center is the hottest place to be this winter with music, dance and film, some world or New York premieres, all free, all fun and all toasty warm